Last night's crazy dream word combination was three real words, "blue buffalo eyes". I think this meant the buffaloes' eyes were blue, not that the entire animal was blue. But it didn't matter because this was supposed to be a code that enabled something to be downloaded or updated. (As is the case in most dreams, it wasn't working.)
Why a complicated expression? Perhaps because I had been watching the YouTube Crash Course series on Linguistics. In addition to the preview, there are 16 videos,most 10 or 11 minutes long. I have covered Morphology and Syntax and am now on Episode 5, "Semantics".
Simple arithmetic shows I should be able to complete the videos in 3 hours or so; however it will take a bit longer. Since the series crams a huge amount of information into each segment, with a large amount of new vocabulary, I am constantly pausing and sometimes replaying.
The narrator does speak clearly and expressively. However, in the effort to condense to the smallest amount of time and file size, she rushes, barely pausing between sentences. The producers could have used their vast knowledge of intonation, inflection and tempo to make the lectures just a little more mellow.
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